discography

Albums/Full Length CDs & cassettes

The Difference Between Light and Shadow (Shame File, 1994) - The debut Undecisive God release; once at sunset I was driving eastwards into a great darkness, with the sun’s light setting behind me, and I wondered “How can I leave this light and head into this great unknown?” The contrast of the two are astounding. The key terms with this tape are sparse and minimalistic. Sound drifts in and out, like distant memories you can’t quite place. Or it comes upon you heavily like sleep, occasionally coarse or abrasive. These recordings came from my early use of a 4 track recorder working with solo guitar.



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The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge (Shame File, 1994) - In a book somewhere I came across an ancient Chinese system which classified all beings into obscure and esoteric categories. Each track represents a category, along with a few of my own categories thrown in. Those that Resemble Flies from a Distance, Those that have just Broken a Flower Vase, Others, Those that Tremble as if they were Mad. We are talking deconstruction of noise here, finishing up with an extended sound/dreamscape. Also from my initial 4-track recorder sessions.
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Punchbag/Undecisive God split tape (Shame File, 1996) - Shared with Melbourne hardcore band Punchbag. Three Undecisive God tracks with minimalistic industrial values being the key.


Available on the "Archive Three" CD

Purple Silk, Yellowed Clothes (Shame File, 1999) - A slight change of direction with some tracks weaving between crystal-fine guitar noise/sweetness to more sonic meandering ambientness, with some hurricane like noisescapes to please the masses. Add a deconstructed ‘Sabbath cover and an extremely sparse Sonic Youth cover. I dare you to recognise them. Silk, Grace, and those who Know.
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Available on the "Archive Three" CD

"The War Against Sleep" cassette (Black Orchid, 2000) 40 minutes of material making a journey into the outer most reaches of consciousness. Came in attractive and unusual cardboard box/label.
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Available on the "Archive Four" CD

Undecisive God CD (Shame File/Smell the Stench, 2001) The accumulation of a decade of recording results in this CD release, exploring the sonic limits of guitar sound, from ambient meditations to grinding extremes.
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"Offering" CD (Shame File, 2003) The concept behind most of the recordings on this full-length CD is the combination of guitar drones of varying tones and textures into a series of canon-based arrangements, exploring the dynamics resulting from the interplay of multiple layers of sound, both through composition and pure chance. This is also the first major Undecisive God release using mostly digital recording methods.
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AGIT8/Undecisive God split CD (MDB Records, 2003) This features 4 live tracks from Undecisive God plus some studio pieces, alongside the extreme power electronics of Brisbane's AGIT8.
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UG tracks available on the "Archive Five" CD

"Border Protection Policy" CD (Shame File, 2004) UG departs from the usual ambient guitar fair to this extreme noise outing, in protest of Australian anti-asylum seeker policy.
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"A Year of Silence" CD (Shame File, 2005) The result of a 12 month field recording project, a random recording was made once a week and then layered on top of each other to create a sound collage of the mundane. The title track contains all 52 weekly recordings layered on top of one another, and monthly mixes are also included. A limited number of copies were handmade and painted.



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Scott Sinclair & Clinton Green "With Doors Open" CD (Half Theory,/a>/Shame File, 2005) - After 3 years of guitar improvisations with Brisbane's Scott Sinclair, the result is this varied but rounded collection of guitar works. Guitars are used to create eccentric sounds, both jagged and melodic, soft and droning. The tracks fit together neatly for a sastifying and intriguing listening experience.
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"Eccentricites" CD (Shame File, 2005) A collection of experiments exploring new guitar techniques, including very physical playing methods and live looping and manipulation. Also features a non-guitar collaborative piece with Greg Wadley (Hi-God People, New Waver).



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"Everything's Broken" CD (Shame File, 2007) New works from the last 3 years, featuring further exploration of turntable/broken record perparations, extended guitar techniques, field recordings and mixer feedback pieces.



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Zac Keiller/Clinton Green - Residential CD (ZAC, 2009) These two Melbourne guitar experimenters join up to run the gambit of ambience, drone and noise, with 3 tracks crafted from private improvisations and live performances.
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Undecisive God/Screwtape "RPMs/Shitless" cassette (Solar Anus, 2010) - Perhaps the most definitive yet recording of Undecisive God's prepared/shattered vinyl set up, backed up with a Screwtape electronic drone piece in three distinct parts with episodes of noise and android voices. Ltd edition of 50 copies.


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"RPMs 2" cassette (Altered States, 2011) - The title track on Side A is a continuation of the developing RPMs series based around a basic compositional structure for prepared turntables. The B side has other recent pieces for guitar, turntable and voice. Ltd to 40 professionally-duplicated copies.


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"RPMs 3-4" CD (Shame File, 2011) - "RPMs 3x3" and "RPMs 4" are the continuation of a series of compositions for turntables that began in 2008. This concept acts as a basic structure for exploration of different turntable settings, preparations and interactions. All four parts of the series released so far work primarily with layers of broken records/vinyl shards on each turntable, which creates a percussive yet chaotic effect as the tone arm skips from shard to shard, playing brief snatches of music from each. Two other tracks are included - another turntable piece and a collage of field recordings. Ltd edition 100 copies.

Track from the CD online here: RPMs 3x3 by Undecisive God


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"RPMs 5-6-7" CD (Iceage Productions, due 2012)
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EPs, etc

Prodigal (Shame File, 2000) - A ten minute cycle of faith, nihilism and redemption.
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"Digilogue" Mini CD,(Label: Kettle/Shame File, 2001) collaborative recordings with Brisbane's Kettle, combining the digital and the analogue.
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Undecisive God/W.I.T. "Modern Discourse" business card CDR(Shame File, 2003) Each artist presents a short remix of the other's work.
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"Live Performances" mp3 EP (Dreamland, 2004) Three live recordings from 2004 (2 from Brisbane, 1 from Melbourne) exploring the possiblities of using the guitar to build a musical atmosphere in a live scenario.
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Scott Sinclair & Clinton Green "Tamas" CDEP (Shame File, 2005) The "single" from the forthcoming album by Scott Sinclair and Clinton Green (A.K.A. Undecisive God) featuring the cream of 3 years of guitar improvisations. "Tamas" is one of the most aggressive cuts from the album, whilst the two "b side" non-album tracks on this EP explore more low-key but nonetheless eccentric territories of guitar sound.



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"Headless" mp3/CDEP (Shame File, 2005) An atmospheric piece intended to be listened to late on a cold night, alone in a warm dimly-lit room. Volume III of the Terra Australis Incognita series, and from the forthcoming Eccentricities album.



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"Duos for guitar and broken records" mini CD (Shame File, 2007) New territory here with live duos between guitar and prepared turntables/records. Limited edition of 52 handmade covers, scavenged from the covers and records of said-broken records.


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"A Vinyl Construction" 7" (Revolution Records, 2009) - Recent experiments with multiple turntables and prepared/broken records come to full fruition here with a release that poses questions both to the use of turntables as instruments and vinyl as a format. The music - crunchy multi-layered improvisations/processes that randomly sample small broken chunks from the original vinyl materials - is itself presented on 7" vinyl, in handmade covers reconstructed from old record covers and broken vinyl shards; each cover is different, individually numbered and an interesting one-off creation in itself. Limited edition of fifty copies.
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"Finnegans Wake" mini CD (Shame File, 2011) - 2010 was the year I read James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Questions about its ‘unreadability’ aside, I discovered a strange rhythm and musicality in the text. I found that this along with its sheer otherworldliness began to influence the way I thought (not as in ‘thought about things’, but the mechanics of thinking). And in particular, the way I listened. The book is mysterious and unknowable, so it seemed impossible to articulate its meaning and/or value by conventional methods. This CD is an attempt to represent what Finnegans Wake means to me through sound rather than words.


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The Archive Series

The Archive Series compiles out-of-print, compilation and previously-unreleased material.

"Archive One: 1991-4" CD (Shame File/Smell the Stench, 2002) The first in a series of CDs collecting Undecisive God’s history of recordings, remastered on CD. Most of the tracks were only previously released on cassette, and some have never been released before. This includes the debut cassette The Difference Between Light and Shadow in its entirety.


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"Archive Two.1: 1994-5" CD (Shame File, 2002) This CD archive features Undecisive God’s second release The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, plus 3 other compilation tracks. I've recently unearthed an early version of "Hallowed Be Thy Name", which I've added to this Archive, thus making it version Two.1 (if anyone purchased the earlier version, return the CD to me with some stamps or IRC and I will send you the updated version).


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"Archive Three.1: 1995" double CD (Shame File, 2003) This archive features the Undecisive God tracks from the split cassette with Punchbag, the entire Purple Silk, Yellowed Clothes cassette, and a previously unreleased track. Recently updated with a newly-discovered early version of "Sisterly".


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"Archive Four: 2000" double CD (Shame File, 2003) featuring remasters of cassette, compilation and unreleased tracks from 2000, including the "Prodigal" and "(_the_war_against_sleep_)" cassettes.


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"Archive Five: 2001" double CD (Shame File, 2004) This archive features tracks from the now unavailable split CD with AGIT8, a complete live performance, as well as compilation-only and previously unreleased tracks.

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"Sound Archive" CD-ROM/mp3 CD (Shame File, 2005) Contains volumes 1-5 of the "Archive" series and all Undecisive God releases up to "Border Protection Policy" in mp3 format with full liner notes in a web-based interface, also playable on mp3-compatible hi-fi units. 99 tracks - the complete recorded output from 1991-2003.


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"Archive six: 2002-2003" 2CD (Shame File, 2010) - Reissues of the now-deleted "Modern Discourse" collaboration with WIT, several compilation and unreleased tracks, and a complete live performance.


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"Archive seven: 2004" 2CD (Shame File, 2010) - A complete live performance in Brisbane, reissue of the Live Performances tracks, plus a range of previously-unreleased tracks including collaborations with Jodi Rose and New Waver.


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"Archive eight: 2005" 2CD (Shame File, 2011) - Unreleased recordings with guitar and digital delay, plus excerpts from two live performances.


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"Archive nine: 2006" 2CD (Shame File, 2012) - The first disc features two now-unavailable tracks and a full live performance, all in collaboration with Melbourne ambient guitarist, Zac Keiller. The second disc features solo works for field recordings and guitar, previously unreleased or compilation-only tracks. Also of interest is a short piece commissioned for a law librarians conference! - AU$14ppd


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Related Projects

The Unnameable "But of that, I will not speak..." CD (Shame File, 2002) A collaboration with Andrew McIntosh of N.FIOS/Screwtape, Parasicitus Dei and Scroungers. This is an ambient/noise tribute to seminal horror writer, H.P.Lovecraft.


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The Unnameable "Graves are not harde to digg, nor acids loth to burne" mp3 EP (Dreamland, 2005) Three new tracks from The Unnameable exploring the black gulfs of sound.

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Bite The Capsicum mini CD (Shame File, 2006) Iron Chef samples looped and distorted into gourmet bliss.



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Bokor - Loss CD (ZAC, 2006) Ambient, atmospheric guitar workouts with some field recordings, featuring Clinton Green (Undecisive God) on 2 tracks.

 
Unatoba "Lost Subway of Undecisive God" cassette (ZH27, 2009) Improvisation with Clinton Green (guitar, voice), Aaron Dawson (guitar) and Zan Hoffman (organ, voice). Limited edition of 27 copies.

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Tangerine Nightmare - "Synthicide"CD ()Shame File, 2010) On a winters night in Melbourne, 2009, three long-time practitioners of drone and noise music came together for an evening of exploration of analogue synthiser sound. Lloyd Barrett, Clinton Green (Undecisive God) & Andrew McIntosh (Screwtape) used a variety of analogue synthiser units and plug-ins to form several long improvisations that ranged from deep drones to roaring waves of oscillator noise. The results were edited down into Synthicide.


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Nevermet Ensemble - "Mitsubou" online release (Rudimentol, 2010) A virtual band of artists from around the world, from whom sounds were solicited then mixed together in to songs. Featuring Clinton Green.


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Tracks on Compilations

- "Gosh I'm So Punk" cassette (Shame File, 1993).
Track "Full Circle" (available on Archive One: 1991-4 CD).
- "A Land of Sweeping Sound" cassette (now available on CDR) (Shame File/SPOCK, 1995).
Tracks "The Loss of Reason and the Pursuit of Ignorance in the Quest for Corporate Bliss" and "Prosuct".
- "Spill 3" CD (Spill, 1995).
Track "Secrets" (available on Archive Two: 1994-5 CD.
- "Behind Closed Doors" CD (Shame File, 2000).
Tracks "Azathoth 2" (available on Undecisive God - self titled CD) and "Pray" (available on Archive Four: 2000 double CD).
- "Sound in the Absence of Light" CD (Shame File, 2001)
Collaborative live recordings.
- "Sonic Waves" CD (2003).
Tracks "Welcome" (available on Archive Five: 2001 double CD) and "Tamas" (with Scott Sinclair, available on With Doors Open CD).
- "Underground Australia" cassette (Cipher, 2003).
Track "Things Fall Apart" (available on Archive Five: 2001 double CD).
- Here Be Monsters "Transmorgify Couplings" CD(ZH27, 2003)
Remixed with other artists.
- "The Prostitution of Philosophy" CD (ZH27, 2003).
Remixed with other artists.
- "Woodlot Surer" (From The Same Mother, 2004)
Tracks "We Will Decide Who Comes to This Country", "SIEVs and SUNG"(sic), "Mandatory Detention of Children" (available on Border Protection Policy CD), "Dots" and "Multi" (available on Archive Six: 2002-2003 double CD).
- "The Undertow: undercurrents of Australian Experimental Music" CD (Shame File, 2004).
Track "Multi3" (available on Archive Six: 2002-2003 double CD).
- "Melbourne Water" CD (W-Minc, 2004)
Track "Lot's Hiss" (with Scott Sinclair, availabe on Archive Six: 2002-2003 double CD). .
- The Spinning Room "Anime Still Sucks" (Chastity, 2004).
Track "Anime Still Sucks (UG Remix)" (available on Archive Six: 2002-2003 double CD).
- "Hidden Landscape: Lake Vostok" CD (Dreamland, 2004).
Track "The Long Night" (available on Archive Six: 2002-2003 double CD).
- "Distance Over Fading Horizons" online release (Sonic Garden, 2005).
Track "Mote" (available on Offering CD).
- "Defenders of the Axe #1" CD (Dreamland, 2006)
Track "Every Night & Every Morn" (with Bokor).
- "Smell The Stench 5" CD/download (Smell the Stench, 2007)
Track "No Input" (availale on Everything's Broken CD).
- "String Theory" 2CD (Dreamland, 2007)
Track "Duo".
- "Smell The Stench 2" online release (Smell the Stench, 2007)
Track "Scatter" (available on Everything's Broken CD).
- "Please Get Up On 8" CD (ZH27, 2008)
Remixed with other artists.
- "Unholy Matrimony" online release (Smell the Stench, 2008)
Track "Spinning Gerogerigegege".
- "Guitarelay" CD (2009)
Track "Trio".
- "Fuck You, You Worthless Cunts" CD (Smell the Stench, 2011)
Track "4-717a-ii".
- "Bleak Metal" online release (New Weird Australia, 2011)
Track "Non Play".
- "The Shape of Sound Vol. 2" CD (Iceage Productions, 2011)
Track "At Uluru (excerpt)".

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